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Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi (前角 博雄, February 24, 1931—May 15, 1995) was the founder of the Zen Center of Los Angeles in California and a seminal figure in the early transmission of Zen practice to the West. Maezumi received Sōtō Zen dharma transmission as well as inka in both the Inzan and Takuju Rinzai lineages. He named twelve dharma successors in his ...

John Tesshin Sanderson is a Sōtō Zen priest in the lineage of his late teacher Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Roshi. Tesshin was first ordained in 1973 and later received Dharma transmission from Maezumi-roshi in 1991. He currently serves as spiritual director of the Centro Zen de México in Coyoacán, Mexico City, where he has served since 1987. In 2001 Tesshin was invited ...

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